HMS Lord Clive

HMS Lord Clive

HMS "Lord Clive" was the nameship of the First World War Royal Navy "Lord Clive"-class monitors. HMS "Lord Clive" named for Clive of India, a British general of the Seven Years' War who won the battle of Plassey. Her original 12-inch main battery was stripped from an obsolete "Majestic" class battleship.

The "Lord Clive" class monitors were built in 1915 to engage German shore artillery in occupied Belgium during the First World War. "Lord Clive", with her sisters was regulaly engaged in this service in the Dover Monitor Squadron and was present at the First Ostend Raid, providing cover for the Inshore Squadron.

In the summer of 1918, "Lord Clive" was taken in for a refit in which her two 12-inch guns were to be replaced by a single 18 inch gun; the spare for the intended two single gun turrets of HMS "Furious" which had been converted to an aircraft carrier. [ [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_18-40_mk1.htm Navweapons.com] accessed 12th October 2007] . The refit was completed and "Lord Clive" subsequently used her single gun four times on bombardment operations on the Belgian coast before the armistice in November 1918, which saw "Lord Clive" and her sisters being put into reserve pending scrapping, as the reason for her existence ended with the liberation of Belgium. In 1921 "Lord Clive" was decommissioned and she was scrapped in 1927.

References

* Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
* Gray, Randal (ed), "Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1906-1921", (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985), ISBN 0-85177-245-5


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